Re: Specific Questions

[Karl Denninger <karl@Mcs.Net>]

> On Thu, 26 Dec 1996, Karl Denninger wrote:
> 
> > I can easily equip an office of 20 people with LAPTOPS up to this job for
> > under $3,000 per person.  That's $60K.
> 
> And what is your hourly rate and how long will it take you to complete the
> job including installing the ISDN connections in Israel, Japan,
> Switzerland and Australia not to mention 5 US cities? If you were willing
> to donate this equipment and services then you should have spoken up
> months ago.  

Why should I?  Everyone ELSE is doing this and being reimbursed.....

Oh, I get it.  I should donate my time and expertise, not to mention
hardware, while everyone else gets paid.  Bite me.

> > But $400,000 worth of expensive?  You only get THAT by paying people's
> > conference call bills and airline tickets.  
> 
> You are now mixing Apples and Oranges. Prior to this we were discussing
> the operation of the IAHC itself which is mainly meetings and discussions.
> You are now moving into the selection procedure for qualified registries
> which is wuite different. At that stage it will require an office with a
> staff of at least one person. It will require paying an internationally
> reputable accounting firm to check out applicants in whatever country they
> may originate and to certify that the lottery is properly conducted. It
> will require a competent international law firm to draw up contracts that
> will be acceptable in all countries which registry applicants come from. 

.....

In other words, we draft a document that radically increases costs, we
implement it in the most costly fashion, we design a process that is
inherently expensive, and then we bill the users.

Even though all of these things could have been avoided.

People should IMHO say "bite me" to that process as well.

> The whole CORE process and database will need to be set up which requires
> six servers to be set up with the database software and a team of
> programmers to be hired to implement the registry application and verify
> it's correctness and the ability to properly failover. These servers then
> have to be deployed in pairs to three different colo sites that are both
> geographically and topologically distributed.

Again, that's a result of a flawed process which was DESIGNED to be
expensive.

> > There are less expensive ways to do this.
> 
> Sure there are. But the users of the Internet don't want to use a network
> that's held together with string and sealing wax. That's why the thousands
> of miles of barbed wire in North America aren't being used to carry IP
> traffic even though they are cheap.

Oh really?  You mean like the existing root server infrastructure?

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